Hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients hit all-time high in US
Hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients in the United States reached an all-time high of 93,238 on Sunday, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
The figure surpassed Saturday's record of 91,635 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized. Current COVID-19 hospitalizations have gone up every day since Oct. 25, except for Sunday when the figure dipped slightly to 89,834, which The COVID Tracking Project credited to "the holiday effect."
The COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-run effort launched from The Atlantic magazine to track the U.S. outbreak, has warned of data inconsistencies in the coming days and weeks due to lags over Thanksgiving followed by a potentially very large backlog from the holiday. For instance, some states didn't report any data at all on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, while others only had partial reports. The totals for testing and new cases were inflated Saturday and Sunday as several states reported two days' worth of data.
"The data wobbles don't consist only of some states not reporting at all -- though that's happened a lot -- but that most or all states that are reporting do not have a full data pipeline from labs and health departments," The COVID Tracking Project wrote on its Twitter account Sunday.
However, the group noted that hospitalization numbers "are less affected by the data slowdown."
